Encore! Encore!
Apr. 22nd, 2021 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanAnother young black person shot by police...
Forget about the tragic & ironic timing of this - the day a policeman was sent to jail for the murder of George Floyd... In fact don't forget about that. You'd think on that day, of all days, the police would be trying to tread lightly, whatever city or town they're in. But no, it's business as usual, all guns blazing. Aside from the tone-deafness this implies, why on Earth did this girl have to be shot 4 TIMES!! She only had a knife & wasn't even threatening a police officer... ONE shot could have done the job, surely... & in the leg would have been fine
Blah blah split-second reaction time blah blah protecting the community blah blah judgement call blah blah officer 'stood down' blah blah the inevitable thoughts & prayers. The same generic drivel that happens every time & indeed happened with the policeman finally convicted of a murder everybody watched happen on a screen. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over & expecting a different result
Look, sometimes police shoot people. We know this - it happens everywhere, including here in Australia. But USA!! USA!! is the only place where it happens so depressingly frequently that it seems to be as acceptable as shooting & killing other hunters on the first day of duck season... or rabbit season
I'm sure the current administration won't go so far as to 'defund the police'... Nobody wants to see the police forces disbanded. But surely, some form of radical cleanout of outdated & dangerous practices, attitudes & probably people needs to happen & a new training focus & code of behaviour implemented, along with harsh penalties for when it isn't followed
Otherwise, who'd bet against another black kid shot dead on the street before the end of the month... week... day
Forget about the tragic & ironic timing of this - the day a policeman was sent to jail for the murder of George Floyd... In fact don't forget about that. You'd think on that day, of all days, the police would be trying to tread lightly, whatever city or town they're in. But no, it's business as usual, all guns blazing. Aside from the tone-deafness this implies, why on Earth did this girl have to be shot 4 TIMES!! She only had a knife & wasn't even threatening a police officer... ONE shot could have done the job, surely... & in the leg would have been fine
Blah blah split-second reaction time blah blah protecting the community blah blah judgement call blah blah officer 'stood down' blah blah the inevitable thoughts & prayers. The same generic drivel that happens every time & indeed happened with the policeman finally convicted of a murder everybody watched happen on a screen. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over & expecting a different result
Look, sometimes police shoot people. We know this - it happens everywhere, including here in Australia. But USA!! USA!! is the only place where it happens so depressingly frequently that it seems to be as acceptable as shooting & killing other hunters on the first day of duck season... or rabbit season
I'm sure the current administration won't go so far as to 'defund the police'... Nobody wants to see the police forces disbanded. But surely, some form of radical cleanout of outdated & dangerous practices, attitudes & probably people needs to happen & a new training focus & code of behaviour implemented, along with harsh penalties for when it isn't followed
Otherwise, who'd bet against another black kid shot dead on the street before the end of the month... week... day
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